Music Journalism

Music Journalism 

Best Music Journalism 2025

December 23, 2025December 23, 2025 Jason Gross 0 Comments 2025, Alice Coltrane, Art Fein, Autechre, Best Music Journalism, Consequence of Sound, Hearing Things, Music Journalism, Offbeat Magazine, Sacha Jenkins, Stanley Booth, Stereogum, The Atlantic

Two dozen articles and plenty of blogs to keep the faith in an AI world

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Music Journalism 

Condé Nast Folds Pitchfork Into GQ

January 17, 2024January 18, 2024 Ron Hart 2 Comments Conde Nast, GQ, layoffs, Music Journalism, Pitchfork, Puja Patel, Ryan Schreiber

Renowned music journalism site’s future in doubt; multiple layoffs announced

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Music Journalism 

Inside the Book She’s A Badass: Women In Rock Shaping Feminism

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024 Jason Webber 0 Comments 2024, Ann Wilson, Backbeat Books, Duran Duran, Katherine Yeske Taylor, Music Journalism, Paula Cole, She’s A Badass: Women In Rock Shaping Feminism, Suzi Quatro

An interview with author Katherine Yeske Taylor

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Music Journalism Records 

The Return of the White Label Promo Preservation Society

October 6, 2023 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment 2023, Bud Scoppa, Dana Gillespie, Dave DiMartino, David Johansen, Detroit with Mitch Ryder, Dusty Springfield, Fishbone, HoZac Books, Ira Robbins, Jeff Tamarkin, Johnny Mathis, Michael "Cub" Koda, Mitchell Cohen, Mott the Hoople, Music Journalism, Records, Sal Maida, Susan Whithall, The Dead Boys, The James Gang, White Label Promo Preservation Society, White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol. 2

Inside the second volume of the book series that looks beyond the Billboard charts

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Music Journalism 

Dear Pop Star: It Is Time to Decide Which Side You Are On

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Ed Sheeran, Metallica, Music Journalism, Otherness, Rock 'n' Roll, Shania Twain, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, Zooey Zephyr

Half of America wants to break the Butterfly of Otherness on the rack; what are you going to do about it? 

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Music Journalism 

Best Music Journalism of 2022

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Jason Gross 1 Comment Arhoolie Records, Ashanti Mutinta, Bob Dylan, Chris Strachwitz, Conde Nast, Consequence of Sound, Creem, David Letterman, Ed Sheeran, Entertainment Weekly, Motörhead, Music Journalism, Noisey, Sleng Teng, Taylor Swift, Uproxx, Vice, Warren Zevon

Looking back on the 24 best stories beyond our pages

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Music Journalism 

Oy Howdy!: Is The New CREEM All You’ve Dreamed?

July 25, 2022August 4, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Boy Howdy, Creem, Lester Bangs, Music Journalism, Rock Journalism, Vice, Vice Magazine

Taking stock in the relaunch of ‘America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine’

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Music Journalism 

They Were There: Two Legendary Rock Writers Sitting Around Talking, Part One

May 19, 2022May 20, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments Big Brother and the Holding Company, CBGB, Crawdaddy!, Creem, Gene Sculatti, Hit Parader, Ira Robbins, Melody Maker, Mojo Navigator, Music Journalism, New York City, San Francisco, Talking Heads, Television, The Beach Boys, The Ramones, The Who Sell Out, Trouser Press

A candid conversation with Ira Robbins and Gene Sculatti

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Music Journalism 

A Brief History of the Beef Between Meat Loaf and the Music Press

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Chicago Sun Times, Fox Pass, interview, Jim Steinman, John Macey, Julie Panebianco, Meat Loaf, Music Journalism, Rock Critics, U2, WBCN

What rock critics’ coverage of Meat says about the art of rock criticism

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Funk Hip Hop Music Journalism Remembrance Rock 

Elegy to a Flyboy

December 10, 2021December 13, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Basehead, Ben Tyree, Chocolate Genius, Defunkt, Fishbone, Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Follow For Now, Greg Tate, Hip-hop, journalism, Justin Warfield, Living Colour, Miles Marshall Lewis, Music Journalism, Ronald Shannon Jackson, The Veldt, Urban Dance Squad

Paying respects to Greg Tate, the man who gave music journalism its groove

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Country and/or Western Music Journalism 

Geoffrey Himes and the Nashville Scene Situation

December 8, 2021April 3, 2022 Don McLeese 1 Comment Alison Russell, Black Pumas, Cancel Culture, Geoffrey Himes, Jake Blount, Music Journalism, Nashville Scene, Paste Magazine

Looking at the fairness of the publication’s snap decision to axe the longtime Country Music Critics’ Poll

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Music Journalism 

The Literature of American Pop

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 Michaelangelo Matos 0 Comments 2021, Ann Powers, Duke University Press, Eric Weisbard, Michaelangelo Matos, Music Journalism, Songbooks, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, William Gibson

Acclaimed journalist and author Michaelangelo Matos talks with Museum of Pop Culture’s Eric Weisbard about his important new tome Songbooks

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Music Journalism Remembrance 

Ed Ward: The Music Critic’s Music Critic

May 12, 2021March 24, 2022 David Menconi 3 Comments Best Music Journalism, Crawdaddy!, Creem, Ed Ward, Fresh Air, Greil Marcus, Music Critic, Music Journalism, NPR, Rolling Stone

Music Historian David Menconi remembers his influential friend and mentor who passed away on May 3rd at age 72

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adblock Music Journalism 

Screw 2020 But Long Live the Music Writer!

December 29, 2020December 30, 2020 Jason Gross 0 Comments Best Music Journalism, Complex, Cousin Brucie, McClatchy, Music Journalism, Q, Rolling Stone, She Shreds, SPIN, Stereogum, Tiny Mixtapes, Vice

Looking back on the best music journalism of the year

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Music Journalism 

Many Music Journalists Started Substack Newsletters This Year

December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Justin Joffe 0 Comments CABBAGES, Gary Suarez, Hunter Harris, Music Journalism, Music Journalism Insider, Substack, Todd Burns

We ask some of the new platform’s more visible members how it’s going

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